Strong's Concordance
Original word: יָאַשׁ
Transliteration: yaash
Definition (short): hopeless
Definition (full): to desist, to despond
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to despair
NASB Translation: despair (2), despaired (1), hopeless (3).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to desist, i.e. (figuratively) to despond -- (cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be no hope.
References
KJV:
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
NASB:
Then David said to himself, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand."
KJV:
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
NASB:
"Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
KJV:
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
NASB:
Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.
KJV:
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
NASB:
"You were tired out by the length of your road, Yet you did not say, 'It is hopeless.' You found renewed strength, Therefore you did not faint.
KJV:
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
NASB:
"Keep your feet from being unshod And your throat from thirst; But you said, 'It is hopeless! No! For I have loved strangers, And after them I will walk.'